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saucerwizard @ saucerwizard @awful.systems
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • Hello other non-cs person!

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • Are there any takedowns of Girard out there?

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • At least it wasn’t a cock ring.

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • The starshot people just found that out the hard way, not sure if it also holds for breakthrough listen.

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  • Dude is a serious narcissist.

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  • Man I’m getting some great recommendations out of this.

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  • You had me at the dyscalculia part!

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  • I’ll have to try some of this then!

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • OT: I had a realization awhile back that I’d basically cut American scifi out of my life. The politics are just gross to me now, and the overseas stuff is just plain more fun.

    What comes out of the states seems to reduce to libertarian (closeted white nationalist) wank fodder, and I guess its been this way since…Campbell? Certainly Niven-Pournelle. It just got gross.

    (Partially prompted by me listening to Iron Council again).

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I keep meaning to reread it and report back on zeerust aspects!

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Ted Chiang rules.

    • The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!

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    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • This is about as techie as I go as far as internet communities haha.

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • Have they ever discussed how much they take on average?

    • Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is

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  • Sperm racing.

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • I don’t think these people have a good handle on how stuff actually works.

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  • They think Yud is a world-historical intellect (I’ve seen claims on twitter he has a iq of 190 - yeah really) and by emulation a little of the old smartness can rub off on them.

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  • These people are no fun at all.

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  • https://www.amazon.ca/Elusive-Wow-Searching-Extraterrestrial-Intelligence/dp/0983958440 https://www.amazon.ca/Astrobiology-Understanding-Universe-Charles-Cockell/dp/1119550351 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548649/extraterrestrial-languages/

    These are all good. Elusive Wow might be harder to find, but its worth looking up the authors career (it was his hobby).

    I’ve noticed Rationalists otoh tend to repeat whatever Anders Sandberg says and are ideologically wedded to a dead universe view of things.

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  • I can drop some books when I get off work! The SETI subreddit is pretty good about posting the latest studies too.